# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-higginbotham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:14:25.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-higginbotham"
name: "Joan Higginbotham"
slug: "joan-higginbotham"
description: "Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham is an electrical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist and is the third African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison and Stephanie Wilson."
tagline: "American engineer and NASA astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Higginbotham.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1964-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.44446
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump